Mighty Mites' Magnificent Muscular Manuevers

Don-El, Captain of the Superman Emergency Squad, was like his first cousin Kal-El physically fit. And when he left the Krypton-like confines of Kandor, where he lived alongside his fellow survivors of his home world within the shrunken bottled city, Don-El likewise possessed superhuman abilities on par with his long-lost relative. This coupled with his moral fortitude and leadership skills made him a natural to chairman the Squad during their various adventures.

Darrel Dane, more famously known as Doll Man, was said to possess the strength of a normal sized man even while in his six-foot tall shrunken form. This made him one of the preeminent heroes of Earth-Two, and an early peer of Kal-L aka Superman. However, early in his career it became evident that Darrel had strength that went far beyond even that of a mortal man in a diminutive physical state. Was this due to the formula he invented, allowing him to alter his size at will?

At the very beginning, Dane and his mentor Professor Roberts hypothesize that it gave him the strength of twenty men. Among his mighty mite feats such as punching a massive whale, lifting and throwing massive boulders on a roadside, and bending iron bars in a prison cell! These are but a few of many examples during his costumed career.

Over time, Doll Man became adept at seemingly gliding on wind currents, undoubtedly propelled aloft by his legs giving him superhuman leaping ability not dissimilar to that possessed by the golden age Superman in his early days. And while Kal-L developed the ability to fly directed by mental will power, Darrel gained mind-over-matter or telekinetic powers. Originally using this ability to manipulate birds such as eagles to carry him through the air, he eventually was able to keep himself and others aloft and defy gravity... although with great mental strain.

Darrel Dane bore an uncanny resemblance to Clark Kent, the civilian men who wore blue spandex and red capes in their crime fighting identities. And given their close comradery decades after they were last together as members of the All-Star Squadron, it seems that Darrel was to Kal-L what Don-El was to Kal-El, miniaturize versions of the Men of Steel and tiny reflections of themselves.